Nairobi, Kenya: Two police officers including the Muthangari OCS
in Nairobi were Monday shot and wounded by suspected thugs in a
five-hour dramatic chase that saw the involvement of an elite squad from
GSU.

Two suspects were killed and three pistols with 22 bullets
recovered from them in the drama that happened at a private residence
along Mzima Springs Lane in Lavington estate.
It took the
reinforcement of at least ten members of GSU’s Recce Squad to bring to
an end the drama inside the bedroom of a lavish compound.

The
officers arrived after their counterparts asked for specialised police
to arrest or kill a suspect who had held them in a siege for hours.

The Muthangari OCS
Krop Lipa and a GSU officer were shot and wounded in the incident. Lipa
sustained bullet wounds in the hand and stomach while the GSU officer
was wounded in the legs and were in stable condition in hospital.

The
drama that lasted more than five hours started outside a petrol station
along James Gichuru Road where the suspects were spotted driving in two
cars.

According to Nairobi police boss Benson Kibue, the gang had
planned to attack the petrol station and a bank at the Lavington
shopping centre. After they realised they had been spotted they started
to escape with police in pursuit.

“One of their cars veered off
the road and hit a post before the occupants jumped out and escaped on
foot as police pursued them. They later took refuge in a private
residence,” said Kibue.
At the residence, one of the suspects was
killed by police under a flowerbed where he had hid and a revolver
pistol found on him, he said.

The second one ran into a house and held a house help hostage demanding that she locks him inside because police were after him.

The
house girl said she told the gunman who was trembling there was a young
baby outside that she needed to get and he allowed her to run out.

“I locked him inside and ran out up to the road where I found police
trying to locate where he was. I informed them before they tried to get
in where the one of them was shot and wounded,” said the maid.
Lipa
was shot as he tried to force his way into the house to get the gunman,
who police said they suspect is a former police officer.